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What is Feeding Mars: Logistics In Western Warfare From The Middle Ages To The Present (History and Warfare) about?

The Essays In This Book Are A Contribution To The Study Of The Logistics Of Warfare As Practiced By Western Powers From Medieval Times To The Vietnam War. The Tools Of War Demand Huge Quantities Of Fodder, Fuel, Ammunition And Food -- 'feeding Mars' -- All Of Which Must Be Produced, Transported, And Distributed To Contending Forces In The Field. This Book Deals With The Unglamorous And Often-neglected Topic Of Logistics, Emphasizing The Ways In Which The Essential Materials Of War Have Been Produced, Acquired, And Distributed Across A Wide Range Of Battlefields. Pt. 1. The Historiography Of Logistics. Logistics And The Aristocratic Idea Of War / Edward N. Luttwak -- The History Of Logistics And 'supplying War' / John A. Lynn -- Pt. 2. Medieval Logistics, 400-1500. Byzantine Logistics : Problems And Perspectives / Walter E. Kaegi -- Logistics In Pre-crusade Europe / Bernard S. Bachrach -- Naval Logistics In The Late Middle Ages : The Example Of The Hundred Years' War / Timothy J. Runyan -- Pt. 3. Early Modern Logistics, 1500-1815. The Logistics Of Warfare At Sea In The Sixteenth Century : The Spanish Perspective / John F. Guilmartin, Jr. -- Food, Funds, And Fortresses : Resource Mob

Author

Lynn, John A, Luttwak, Edward N, Satterfield, George, Kaegi, Walter, Bruce, Robert

Publisher

Westview Pr (Short Disc)

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813318653

Subjects

Military, History, Government_military